From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, to the gutters of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle… In a kingdom divided by religious wars and under threat of British invasion, a handful of men and women will cross swords and tie their fate to that of France.
The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. Only woman from her promo, she is finishing a thesis she has to expose to an audience of researchers. On the D-day, a mistake shakens all her certainties and all her foundations collapse. Marguerite decides to quit everything to start all over again.